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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by noduerme on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:34AM (#29946204)
It's kind of a compliment. "Hot take" is becoming common parlance, but a hot take as defined by Blind Boy Boathouse would be a connection you notice between two seemingly unrelated things, and then dive into to arrive at a smashing observation about, where you link those things by obsessively researching the connections between them, to reveal a hot take on events that no one has quite heard of, or had the same take on before.

Check out this, maybe the great hot take of all time. https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/pooanon

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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by reaperducer on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:50PM (#29948510)
It's kind of a compliment

I'm not so sure it is a compliment.

I've heard advertisements on the radio recently for financial and sports programs and web sites where they promise "No hot takes — only real information."

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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by easygenes on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:30AM (#29954130)
Yeah, I think "hot take" [1] is the analytic analogue to expressions like "by the seat of the pants," [2] meaning something like: A rushed, likely emotional, reaction to something with no or minimal follow-up research or analysis.

  1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_take
  2: https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants
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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by duskwuff on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:25AM (#29954302)
Not precisely. What makes a "take" hot is its provocative or controversial nature. It's not quite flamebait -- that implies more of a deliberate attempt to sow discord -- but it's along the same lines.
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